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Fiction, non-fiction and children's books (home 15%, USA 15%, children's 10%, translation 20%). No short stories, poetry or film/TV scripts or plays. No reading fee. No unsolicited MSS. No response to submissions by email. Represented in all foreign markets. Children's picture books, fiction for 5-8 and 9-12 year-olds, teenage fiction, series fiction, film/TV tie-ins, non-fiction and audio (home 10%, overseas 20%). No short stories or poetry. Also handles adult fiction and non-fiction.

No reading fee. No unsolicited MSS. No response to submission by email.

Authors include John Banville, Herbie Brennan, Eoin Colfer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Frederick Forsyth, A.A. Gill, Josephine Hart, Jack Higgins, Nigella Lawson, Kathy Lette, Allan Mallinson, Andrew Marr, Frederic Raphael, Danny Scheinmann, Janet Street-Porter and the Estates of Douglas Adams, Raymond Chandler, Dame Iris Murdoch, Sir Stephen Spender, Irving Wallace.

Children's authors include Mary Arrigan, Herbie Brennan, Emma Clayton, Eoin Colfer, David Lee Stone, Oisín McGann and Kate Thompson.

Founded 1976.

Association of Authors' AgentsThe association of UK agents. Their website (http://www.agentsassoc.co.uk/index.html) gives a Directory of Members and a code of practice, but no information about the agencies other than their names. The association refers visitors to the UK agent listings from The Writers' & Artists' Yearbook on the WritersServices site.

Specialises in literary fiction and general non-fiction.

No poetry, plays, film scripts, science fiction, fantasy or children's books.

No reading fee. Send preliminary letter, synopsis and first 3 chapters plus return postage.

Founded 1993.

Special interests: China, Middle East, Africa, India. No film/TV scripts or poetry. Founded 1968.

Overseas associates La Nouvelle Agence (France), Jan Michael (Holland), Joanne Wang (China), ICM (USA). Film & TV: ICM.

Best approach is by personal recommendation. Please submit the first fifty pages of your work, double spaced and unbound, along with a brief synopsis and a brief note about yourself to Jamie Coleman at the above address. Include postage for return of material. No email submissions.

Clients include Nada Awar Jarrar, Mark Burnell, John Carey, Chris Cleave, Bernard Cornwell, Rana Dasgupta, Fadia Faqir, Sophie Gee, Samson Kambalu, Susan Lewis, Diane Wei Liang, Julia Lovell, Francesca Marciano, Kanan Makiya, Patrick Marnham, Lawrence Potter, Deborah Scroggins, Samia Serageldin, Rachel Seiffert, Sunny Sahota, John Stubbs, Robert Winder, Fan Wu, Xinran Xue. Estates of Peter Cheyney, Ted Lewis, Mary Wesley, Evie Wyld.